Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Mackay Sugar, Australia’s second-largest sugar producer, disclosed a cyberattack on June 10, potentially affecting key processing operations. Mackay Sugar is one of Australia’s largest sugar producers and the country’s second-largest sugar manufacturer. The company is based in the Mackay region of tropical North Queensland and has more than 140 years of history in sugar cane […]

Also, Kali365 Bypasses MFA, Silent Ransom Group Makes Office CallsThis week, active duty troops tracked, Kali365 bypassed MFA, Australian lawmakers phished on WhatsApp, Silent Ransom escalated IT scams, Lithuania and German hospitals disclosed breaches, pro-Russian infrastructure providers arrested, CISA warned of active LiteSpeed exploitation.

Microsoft on Monday disclosed that it automatically detected and neutralized a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia that measured 5.72 terabits per second (Tbps) and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps)

DoorDash has disclosed a data breach that hit the food delivery platform this October. Beginning yesterday evening, DoorDash, which serves millions of customers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, started emailing those impacted by the newly disclosed security incident. [...]

DoorDash has disclosed a data breach that hit the food delivery platform this October. Beginning yesterday evening, DoorDash, which serves millions of customers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, started emailing those impacted by the newly disclosed security incident. [...]

Australian airline Qantas disclosed that it detected a cyberattack on Monday after threat actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data. [...]

The country will require certain organizations to report ransomware payments and communications within 72 hours after they're made or face potential civil penalties.

Australian firms with an annual turnover of AUS $3m are now required to report any payments to ransomware groups to authorities

An internal error led to public disclosure of reams of sensitive data that could be co-opted for follow-on cyberattacks.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) disclosed a data breach incident where private documents leaked online and were indexed by major search engines. [...]

​Genea, one of Australia's largest fertility services providers, disclosed that unknown attackers breached its network and accessed data stored on compromised systems. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new phishing kit that has been put to use in campaigns targeting Australia, Japan, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. since at least September 2024

Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the U.K., and the U.S. have released a joint advisory about a China-linked cyber espionage group called APT40, warning about its ability to co-opt exploits for newly disclosed security flaws within hours or days of public release

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in the Judge0 open-source online code execution system that could be exploited to obtain code execution on the target system

'Volt Typhoon' Could Be Preparing for Renewed Burst of ActivityA Chinese state hacking group is attacking superseded Cisco routers to target government entities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Beijing cyberespionage hackers dubbed "Volt Typhoon" are using vulnerabilities that were first disclosed in early 2019.

Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed several security flaws impacting their products that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. on Thursday disclosed details of a mobile malware strain targeting Android devices used by the Ukrainian military

Australia's Fire Rescue Victoria has disclosed a data breach caused by a December cyberattack that is now claimed by the Vice Society ransomware gang. [...]

Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) has disclosed a February 2022 data breach that impacted its Medlab Pathology business, exposing the medical records and other sensitive information of 223,000 people. [...]

Australian health insurance firm Medibank on Wednesday disclosed that the personal information of all of its customers had been unauthorizedly accessed following a recent ransomware attack